Three
hours might not be a long drive, but
it took me several months to meet
net-friends from Knoxville after I
moved to Nashville. I finally have
a few pictures ready, with photos
of other Knoxville friends coming
soon. A long time ago, I invited Tamara
to come to The
Firing Line from Glocktalk and
she has since become a moderator there.
A little later, Marko (her room-mate
at the time) joined that bunch as
well. He goes by the moniker of lendringser,
a nod to his German origins. Both
now help me with moderating The
High Road forums which succeeded
The Firing Line.

Both Marko and Tamara are fond
of loud hand-held internal combustion
engines. They are pretty good with
the tools and know a great deal
of substance and trivia. Watching
movie with them involves hearing
much of "That's the wrong modification
of Panzer IV for 1942!" and
similar comments.

Gwen's daughter Michaela, seen
here hiding behind her father, making
tea and grooving to the music, is
a good example of what's right with
kids these days. She'd sane, intelligent
and possessed of good parents.

That was a year ago. These days
she has better things to do than
trying to pry out her own uvula.
Slurping a sode on a hot day, or
impressing visitors with precociousness
are among those better things.